2023 NFL Regular Season Through Super Bowl LVIII

[infrared41]

28 minutes ago, Sec19Row53 said:

Let us all please forget the game linked below, in which 6 players threw passes for the two teams, including 4 by Walter Payton because Mike Ditka had had enough of the QB position.  Randy Wright, Rich Campbell, Gerry Ellis and Bucky Scribner for GB, and Rusty Lisch(!) and Sweetness for the Bears.

https://www.pro-football-reference.com/boxscores/198412090chi.htm

 

I was fortunate enough to be watching that game. Walter Payton playing QB was awesome. Ditka should have let him play QB the rest of the game.

 

[infrared41]

1 hour ago, DG_ThenNowForever said:

 

You mean Buffalo Bills legend Kyle Orton.

 

Of course I do.  Many apologies for the oversight. Orton was so legendary that even when he retired, he still managed to save the Bills franchise...according to the guy who made this video anyway.

 

 

 

[Sec19Row53]

9 minutes ago, infrared41 said:

 

I was fortunate enough to be watching that game. Walter Payton playing QB was awesome. Ditka should have let him play QB the rest of the game.

 

Me too. Freshman year at UW.

[DG_ThenNowForever]

1 hour ago, infrared41 said:

 

Of course I do.  Many apologies for the oversight. Orton was so legendary that even when he retired, he still managed to save the Bills franchise...according to the guy who made this video anyway.

 

A 9-7 season sandwiched in between two decades of 5-11 felt really, really good.

 

There is a certain part of lowered expectations that made the Sundays of the 2010s way less stressful than those of the 2020s as a Bills fan. Now is way better, of course, but also more existential.

[The_Admiral]

Jimmy Clausen was the quarterback in the game against the Seahawks where the Bears punted on every possession. And that was way before the Bears were irretrievably awful! 

[TBGKon]

 

[The_Admiral]

Wholly unnecessary, go away

[Red Comet]

7 hours ago, DG_ThenNowForever said:

 

You mean Kansas City Chiefs legend Kyle Orton.

 

FTFY

 

 

 

[Fowler]

2 hours ago, TBGKon said:

 

 

St. Louis Alleycats. Meow. 

[FiddySicks]

5 hours ago, TBGKon said:

 

“Do you want to keep the NFL in Jacksonville?”  Is a question I don’t think they’re really gonna want an answer to. 
 

Lol, the gall. Who the  are the Jaguars to make threats to anyone?

[SFGiants58]

11 hours ago, infrared41 said:

 

Kyle Orton.

I can’t explain why, but I used to get him and Jake Plummer confused. I guess Broncos quarterbacks from the interregnum between Elway and Manning just meld together for me.

[The_Admiral]

Without even considering that it's $2 billion to build it in a suburb of nowhere, this push to build a million SoFi Stadiums after the players' union just came out and begged to stop playing on plastic grass is ill-timed.

 

  

Just now, SFGiants58 said:

I can’t explain why, but I used to get him and Jake Plummer confused. I guess Broncos quarterbacks from the interregnum between Elway and Manning just meld together for me.

Lenny = White

Carl = Black

Plummer = Stache

Orton = Neckbeard

[infrared41]

32 minutes ago, SFGiants58 said:

11 hours ago, infrared41 said:

 

Kyle Orton.

I can’t explain why, but I used to get him and Jake Plummer confused

 

Same here.

[TalktoChuck]

40 minutes ago, SFGiants58 said:

I can’t explain why, but I used to get him and Jake Plummer confused. I guess Broncos quarterbacks from the interregnum between Elway and Manning just meld together for me.

7 minutes ago, infrared41 said:

Same here.

 

 

Jake Plummer > Elway all day!

[DustDevil61]

6 hours ago, TBGKon said:

 

 

 

I saw this the other day and thought, “Didn’t Shahid Khan just put in a decent amount of money for a stadium renovation or practice facility? That didn’t take long.”

 

Anyways, I just don’t see a permanent move to London—if it even gets to that point—but Khan tried to buy the then-St. Louis Rams before Stan Kroenke did and IIRC has ties to the greater Missouri/Illinois region. Of course, San Antonio/Austin could be a great market as well, if the Cowboys and Texans were to let a 3rd team in Texas. Either St. Louis or San Antonio would fit in geographically well with the rest of the AFC South as well.

 

I ultimately don’t see it happening, but those are my thoughts on this situation.

[McCall]

58 minutes ago, DustDevil61 said:

 

 

I saw this the other day and thought, “Didn’t Shahid Khan just put in a decent amount of money for a stadium renovation or practice facility? That didn’t take long.”

 

Anyways, I just don’t see a permanent move to London—if it even gets to that point—but Khan tried to buy the then-St. Louis Rams before Stan Kroenke did and IIRC has ties to the greater Missouri/Illinois region. Of course, San Antonio/Austin could be a great market as well, if the Cowboys and Texans were to let a 3rd team in Texas. Either St. Louis or San Antonio would fit in geographically well with the rest of the AFC South as well.

 

I ultimately don’t see it happening, but those are my thoughts on this situation.

With the XFL-USFL about to torpedo the Battlehawks, I'd happily welcome the Jaguars to St. Louis. I remember when he wanted to buy the Rams and "keep them in St. Louis". I was happy when Kroenke exercised his right to become majority owner, thinking a Missouri guy wouldn't move them... And we all know how that turned out. Given how long Khan has kept the Jaguars there, I wish he'd own a team in St. Louis.

[Fowler]

St. Louis building Shad Khan a 1 billion dollar stadium with taxpayer money. Nope. Maybe Shad can tell Tony to close his lame wrestling outfit and give back the 100 million. 

[The_Admiral]

I have a hard time seeing St. Louis get back in the game. Isn't the Jones Dome going to be demolished soon-ish? It's hard to imagine a replacement, especially after they just committed to the soccer stadium. 

 

Las Vegas Jaguars while leaving the Raiders alone would have been an interesting alternative.

[rams80]

23 hours ago, infrared41 said:

 

Just for reference, in my first 26 years as a Browns fan, the team had six starting QBs.

 

Bill Nelsen 69-71

Mike Phipps 72-74

Brian Sipe 75-83

Paul McDonald 84

Bernie Kosar 85-93

Vinnie Testaverde 94-95

 

I'd be willing to bet that there was at least one season between 1999 and today when the Browns started six different QBs in a 16 game season. Maybe more than one.

 

 

 

The Bears definitely had it first. These are Bears QBs I remember off the top of my head and I'm not even a Bears fan.

 

Jack Concannon

Bobby Douglas

Bob Avellini

Mike Phipps (You're welcome)

Vince Evans

Jim McMahon (Still the best Bears QB of the modern era)

Steve Fuller

Mike Tomczak

Steve Walsh

Erik Kramer

 

EDIT: How did I forget Doug Flutie?

 

I'm sure there have been a bunch more.

 

By the way,  the Bears are more than welcome to reclaim the QB jersey meme. Pretty sure the Browns are going to be rolling with the sexual predator guy for the foreseeable future.

 

 

 

 

It is arguable that the best QB in Bears franchise history retired in 1950.

[tBBP]

I guess on the one hand I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised if Khan does pull the Jags out of Jville. On the other, IF it should happen that they somehow end up in St. Louis, that'll put them 5 hours up the freeway from me meaning they'll be in my TV market, so I'm over here like ...